SPRING 2015
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD
CBM ONLINE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OFFERINGS
ACC 212 Introduction to Managerial Accounting – CRN 12417 – Section C
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Continuation of ACC 211. Study of the managerial accounting concepts and procedures that aid managers in planning operations,
controlling activities, and making decisions for economic entities. Course Information: Prerequisite: ACC 211 or equivalent.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: TBA
BUS 302 Principles of Financial Management – CRN 10111 – Section C
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Course Description: Introduction to the analysis of financial operations, decision processes, and analytic tools used in the
financial management of the business enterprise. Provides special attention to areas of capital budgeting, cost of capital, ethical
issues, investment decisions, and working capital management. (CBM Core Course)
Course Information: Prerequisites: All foundation courses: managerial and financial accounting; micro- and macroeconomics;
statistics; calculus (or finite math); behavioral science.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: TBA
BUS 312 Principles of Marketing – CRN 11653 – Section C
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course may require proctored exams.
Covers the basic theories that guide marketing practice, and acquaints students with the fundamental concepts of marketing. The
course focuses on marketers' use of price, product, promotion, and distribution strategies to create a sustainable differential for a
target market segment. (CBM Core Course)
Course Information: Prerequisites: financial accounting and microeconomics or equivalents.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: TBA
BUS 322 Principles of Operations Management – CRN 11978 – Section C
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course may require proctored exams.
Course Description: Introduction to OM techniques including their application to functional areas of the business enterprise and
operations control. Topics include product and production planning, facilities layout and location planning, project evaluation and
control, linear programming, waiting line and inventory modeling, production control, and quality planning and control. (CBM
Core Course)
Course Information: Prerequisites: Calculus (or finite math) and statistics.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Francois Giraud-Carrier
BUS 322 Principles of Operations Management – CRN 12300 – Section E
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course may require proctored exams.
Course Description: Introduction to OM techniques including their application to functional areas of the business enterprise and
operations control. Topics include product and production planning, facilities layout and location planning, project evaluation and
control, linear programming, waiting line and inventory modeling, production control, and quality planning and control. (CBM
Core Course)
Course Information: Prerequisites: Calculus (or finite math) and statistics.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Atul Agarwal
BUS 331 Business, Ethics, and Society – CRN 10116 – Section A
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course may require proctored exams.
Role of business in our society and the interactions it has with various segments of the society. Specific areas examined include
the legal environment; social responsibility of business, political, and social forces; and ethical dilemmas that can occur. Course
Information: Prerequisite: ECO 201 and ECO 202 or ECO 315, or equivalent. Enrollment requires completion of at least 48 hours
of college level coursework.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: TBA
BUS 331 Business, Ethics, and Society – CRN 13765 – Section D
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course may require proctored exams.
Role of business in our society and the interactions it has with various segments of the society. Specific areas examined include
the legal environment; social responsibility of business, political, and social forces; and ethical dilemmas that can occur. Course
Information: Prerequisite: ECO 201 and ECO 202 or ECO 315, or equivalent. Enrollment requires completion of at least 48 hours
of college level coursework.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: TBA
BUS 332 Legal Environment of Business – CRN 12310 – Section C
Online BBA and Online BBA:MGT majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other majors
available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course may require proctored exams.
Introduction to the nature and function of law and legal systems and their impact on business. Specific areas of study include
private, regulatory, securities, labor, employment, and antitrust law and business organization. Course Information: Prerequisite:
introduction to micro- and macroeconomics, or ECO 315, or equivalent.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: TBA
BUS 430 Topic:International Marketing – CRN 13556 – Section B
OR
MKT 430 Topic: International Marketing – CRN 14153 – Section B
Online BBA and BBA:MKT majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other majors available at
www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Each topic covers a different marketing concept and may include an intensive workshop. May be repeated for an indefinite
number of hours, but particular topics must vary. Course Information: Prerequisite: BUS 312 or equivalent. Students who
have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Shipra Gupta
BUS 452 Project Management – CRN 12724 – Section A
Online BBA and Online BBA:MGT majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other majors
available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Managing projects within an organizational context, including the processes related to initiating, planning, executing, controlling,
reporting, and closing a project. This course covers topics such as project integration, scope, time, cost, quality control, risk
management, and earned value management. Course Information: Prerequisites: BUS 322 and MGT 310, or equivalent, or
permission of instructor.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: David K. Larson
ECO 315 Economics for Administration – CRN 10183 – Section B
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Requires Departmental Approval
Essential micro- and macroeconomic concepts as they apply to administrative decisions. Principal theories and analysis of
efficient resource allocation as related to economic decisions of individuals, public and private organizations, and society.
Primarily for students who have had no prior college-level work in economics. Course Information: Not accepted toward
requirements of Economics Degree. Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore standing. This course fulfills a
general education requirement at UIS in the area of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
4.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Carl R. Peterson
MGT 310 Managing Organizational Behavior – CRN 11668 – Section C
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
(CBM Core Course) Examines and analyzes the organization and the organizational environment as a social system. The impact
of its various components on individuals and groups within the organization will also be considered. Topics include individual
differences, perceptions, attitudes, emotions, motivation, performance, job design, culture, innovation, change, strategy and
structure, and leadership.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Laurel V Newman
MGT 431 Human Resource Management – CRN 12878 – Section B
Online BBA and Online BBA:MGT majors and Online HRM Graduate Certificate students have priority for registration.
Course Request Form for all other majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Theories and applications of the leadership and development of people in organizations. Topics include human resource planning,
recruitment, selection, orientation, training, career development, performance appraisal, compensation, incentives, unionmanagement relations, ethics, diversity, and succession planning. Course Information: Prerequisite: MGT 310.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Donna Rogers Skowronski
MGT 461 Organization Theory – CRN 10504 – Section A
Online BBA and Online BBA:MGT majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other majors
available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Course Description: Theories and applications of organization theory relative to the design of organizational structure. Topics
include organizational analysis, structure, culture, technology, organization size and life cycle, mechanistic and organic
organizations, organizational effectiveness, measuring organizational performance, conflict, power, politics, external
environment, ethics, and diversity. Course Information: Prerequisite: MGT 310 or equivalent.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: David O’Gorman
MGT 474 Leadership And Motivation – CRN 13942 – Section B
Online BBA and Online BBA:MGT majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other majors
available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Course Description: Major leadership theories, characteristics of leaders, leadership styles, delegation, decision-making,
communication, and subordinate development examined. Motivational methods and techniques studied as potential tools for
those assuming leadership roles. Course Information: Prerequisite: MGT 310 or equivalent.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: TBA
MGT 485 International Management – CRN 13515 – Section B
Online BBA and Online BBA:MGT majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other majors
available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest
Course Description: Gives a perspective of the global marketplace, compares the management of similar companies in different
nations, analyzes public/private sector relationships, and examines the social and economic impact of various internal and
external cross-border issues. Course Information: Prerequisite: MGT 310 or equivalent.
Students who have not demonstrated completion of prerequisites will be removed from this course.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Yuanyuan Zhou
MGT 488 Strategic Management: The Capstone – CRN 11688 – Section D
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Requires Departmental Approval. Course may require
proctored exams.
Course Description: CBM Core Course) Theories and applications of strategic management as related to the leadership of
organizations. Focuses on developing a better understanding and demonstrated application skills in the areas of organizational
vision and mission, goals and objectives, environmental scanning and analysis, issue identification and problem solving, and
integration of functional competencies into cohesive organizational strategies. Course Information: Prerequisites: All college core
courses, four upper division courses in the major, and students must be within twelve hours of graduation. See program degree
requirements for specific major prerequisites.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructor: Yuanyuan Zhou
MIS 352 Principles of Management Information Systems – CRN 11704 – Section C
Online BBA, Online BBA:MGT and Online MIS majors have priority for registration. Course Request Form for all other
majors available at www.illinois.edu/goto/courserequest Course requires proctored exams.
Course Description: (CBM core course) Introduces students to fundamental concepts in management information systems (MIS),
the role of computers in MIS, and some details of how the computer functions. Topics include various types of information
systems, use of information by management, and information systems applications. The students will also be exposed to the
application of MIS technologies in the development of business solutions through end user computing and topics such as
computer hardware and software, operating systems, and security. Course Information: Access to the Internet is required.
3.0 Credit Hours
Instructors: TBA
MIS 371 Enterprise Architecture – CRN 14171 – Section B
This course explores the design, selection, implementation, and management of enterprise IT solutions. The focus is on
applications, infrastructure, and their fit with the business. Students learn frameworks and strategies for infrastructure
management, system administration, data/information architecture, content management, middleware, software selection, total
cost of ownership calculation, and IT investment analysis. Access to the Internet is required. Course Information: Prerequisite:
CSC 275 or equivalent.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: TBA
MIS 385 Data and Information Management – CRN 14172 – Section B
This course provides students with an introduction to the core concepts in data and information management. Core skills of
identifying organizational information requirements, conceptual data, modeling techniques, converting the conceptual data
models into relational data models and verifying its structural characteristics with normalization techniques, and implementing
and utilizing a relational database using an industrial-strength database using management system. Course Information:
Prerequisite: MIS 352. Access to the Internet is required.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: TBA
MIS 395 Electronic Business Strategy, Architecture, and Design – CRN 13587 – Section B
The course focuses on the linkage between organizational strategy and networked information technologies to implement a rich
variety of business models in the national and global contexts connecting individuals, businesses, governments and other
organizations to each other. The course provides an introduction to e-business strategy and the development and architecture of ebusiness solutions and their components. Course Information: Prerequisite: MIS 352. Access to the Internet is required.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: Jesus Canelon
MIS 458 IS Project Management – CRN 13588 – Section A
This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques, and tools that organizations use to manage their information systems
projects. The course covers a systematic methodology for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. This
course assumes that project management in the modern organization is a complex team-based activity where various types of
technologies (including project management software, as well as software to support group collaboration) are an inherent part of
the project management process. This course also acknowledges that project management involves both the use of resources from
within the firm, as well as contracted from outside the organization. Course Information: Prerequisite: MIS 371 and BUS 322.
Access to the Internet is required.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: David Larson
MIS 468 Business Process Management – CRN 14167 – Section B
Students will be introduced to key concepts and approaches to business process management and improvement. The main focus
of this course is both understanding and designing business processes. Students will learn how to identify, document, model,
assess, and improve core business processes. Students will be introduced to process design principles. The way in which
information technology can be used to manage, transform, and improve business processes is discussed. Students will be exposed
to challenges and approaches to organizational change, domestic and offshore outsourcing, and inter-organizational processes.
Course Information: Prerequisite: MIS 352. Access to the Internet is required.
3.0 Credit hours
Instructor: Jesus Canelon